Sissy Spacek, K2

CD version. The collaborative album by Sissy Spacek and K2 was made by mail in 2014 and released that year on CD by Helicopter. This reissue has new artwork and liner notes, and puts the record on vinyl for the first time.

Sissy Spacek had just been reconfigured as a duo of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese; K2 is Kimihide Kusafuka. They had crossed paths for years, but this was their first full-length together in this form. The first two pieces were recorded in Los Angeles in January 2014: Slang Imprisonment at Bedrock, and S2K2 (Ambulette) by Mumma and Wiese with K2. The two parts of Lemmings March to the Abyss are Kusafuka's, “de-composed and played” at his Oncosonik Laboratory in April from raw material sent by the duo, with a feedback system and junk electronics. The starting point is the physical vocabulary of grindcore, and across the four pieces it gets steadily more abstract: saturated noisecore, fragments of electronics and feedback, each side's material absorbed and taken apart by the other.

Limited edition: the vinyl is a gatefold double LP cut at 45 RPM, one piece per side. Reissue mastering by John Wiese.